Economics

What Every American Wants**
The president has proposed sweeping tax cuts. Hover fellow and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman approves.

Making Deficits Disappear**
The proper response to the president's tax proposals? Bravo! By Melvyn Krauss.

Doom or Boom?**
Gloomy predictions notwithstanding, there are plenty of signs that the American economy is on the rebound. By Charles Wolf Jr.

Education

The Decline and Fall of American Education
American education is in serious trouble. Why aren’t we more concerned? By Paul E. Peterson.

Teachers for the New Century
To improve our public schools we need better teachers. Hoover fellow Edward P. Lazear explains how to get them.

Smaller Is Better
The evidence is coming in: Smaller schools produce results. By Hoover fellow Hanna Skandera and Hoover senior associate director Richard Sousa.

Politics

Beating the Odds
With the slow economy and a slew of corporate scandals making headlines, the Democrats should have swept last fall’s midterm elections. What happened? An analysis by Hoover fellows David W. Brady and Morris P. Fiorina.

Why Big Government Is Still the Problem
Is the era of big government really over? In a word, hardly. By Hoover fellow Dinesh D’Souza.

Judicializing Politics, Politicizing Law
More and more, courts in both the United States and Europe are legislating from the bench. Hoover fellow John Ferejohn on a trend that appears unstoppable.

The Courts

Nike and the First Amendment
Does the First Amendment extend to corporate America? The Supreme Court is about to decide. By Clark S. Judge.

Who Owns the Genome?
Should private companies be granted patents on the human genome? Hoover fellow Richard Epstein on a debate that he argues has been fraught with needless misunderstanding.

Technology

The Academy Takes a Dive
Has the National Academy of Sciences—long seen as a reliable, independent, and incorruptible source of advice on scientific, technological, and medical issues—been providing the federal government with flawed and politically motivated advice? By Hoover fellow Henry I. Miller.

Iraq

The War This Time
Should war with Iraq come, how will it differ from the last conflict in the Persian Gulf? By Hoover fellow Robert Zelnick.

When There’s No Good Guy
Saddam must go. By Hoover fellow Dinesh D’Souza.

Endgame
Why the United States should not go it alone. By Hoover fellow Larry Diamond.

The War on Terror

America Lays It on the Line
The Bush Doctrine could transform international relations for generations to come. By Hoover fellow Charles Hill.

A Man for All Seasons
Introducing a new, more flexible George W. Bush. By Hoover fellow Michael McFaul.

Afghanistan

Rebuilding Kabul
After 23 years of war, the city slowly emerges from the rubble. By Michael Walker.

National Security

Democracies and Their Spies
Are secrecy and democracy inherently incompatible? Not necessarily. By Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.

What Price Security?
Would you rather take the slim chance of being blown up by a terrorist or have all your e-mail read by the government? Hoover fellow Timothy Garton Ash on the costs of protecting ourselves.

International Relations

The Big Bang of NATO Enlargement
NATO is getting bigger—and a good thing, too. By Hoover visiting fellow Donald Abenheim.

Brazil

Lula’s Moment
Brazil has suffered economic and political stagnation for a quarter of a century. Will the nation’s charismatic new president be able to make a difference? By Hoover fellows Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, and Hoover senior associate director Richard Sousa.

Europe

Unfinished Business
Our attention may be riveted on the Middle East, but there’s trouble brewing in the states of the former Soviet Union. By Hoover fellow Michael McFaul.

Britain

Mr. Blair Places His Bet
In supporting President Bush’s tough stance against Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair is putting his political capital at risk. Will the gamble pay off? By Hoover fellow Gerald A. Dorfman.

Germany

The German Difference
Why U.S.-German relations remain strained. By Hoover fellow Russell A. Berman.

China

What Will Hu Do?
At a spry 60 years old, Hu Jintao is—by the standards of Chinese leaders—a very young man. Does his rise signal a break with the past? Not likely. Hoover fellow Alice Lyman Miller explains.

From Mao to Hu
And now, the real great leap forward. By Hoover fellow Robert J. Barro.

Russia

Sorting Pieces of the Russian Past
Russia grapples with the painful legacy of Stalin’s terror. By Hoover fellow Arnold Beichman.
SIDEBAR: Artist and Gulag Survivor Thomas Sgovio

Hoover Archives

From the Prison to the Castle: The Legacy of Václav Havel
The man who inspired the Velvet Revolution. By Iva K. Naffziger.

The Longshoreman Philosopher
Eric Hoffer’s papers in the Hoover Archives run to many thousands of pages and include journals that have never been published. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell examines the trove.